Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

While we can’t predict what the future holds for EdTech tools, we can make educated guesses as to which resources will see success in years to come. Here are some EdTech tools already making an impact and others that show a lot of promise for what lies ahead. It offers discounted pricing for educators to meet this goal.

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EdTech Khan Academy Tools Classroom 70

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

In the world of college test prep materials and tools, Don Phan considers himself a connoisseur. In the year since it launched, the platform has cut in half the time students have to study to obtain the same results, according to company metrics.

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Meeting Khan Academy Assessment Study 89

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

Also feeling the ripple effect are the companies and organizations that provide tools and services to students and educators. Loans are forgiven provided that recipients meet criteria that include using at least 60 percent of the amount to keep their staff while maintaining at least 75 percent of their current salaries.

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EdTech Khan Academy Company Industry 89

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

In the world of college test prep materials and tools, Don Phan considers himself a connoisseur. In the year since it launched, the platform has cut in half the time students have to study to obtain the same results, according to company metrics.

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Meeting Khan Academy Assessment Study 81

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

To manage these tasks, the foundation contracted with a company called Kaleidoscope , a Minneapolis-based provider of a platform that connects companies, foundations and high-net-worth individuals offering scholarships and grants to students seeking financial aid. Each year, students receive more than 1.7

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Khan Academy Company Secondary Trends 85

Graphite Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

It’s tough in a typical school year to serve each student’s unique learning needs, but the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the meaning of meeting all students “where they are." Each tool has scored well on our research-based ratings rubric. Elementary Math and Science Khan Academy Kids.

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Resources Khan Academy Android Adobe 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

Hence, EdSurge decided to enter back into that conversation with November, this time in a Q&A covering his thoughts on the “$1000 pencil,” whether Khan Academy is or is not pushing the envelope, and how any change in the classroom has to start with the teacher. There still seems to be a big demand for that.

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Company EdTech Khan Academy Industry 60

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Another educator started a burgeoning Facebook group for international educators to trade tips, and another began a detailed list of helpful online tools, including the digital portfolio platform Seesaw and the ebook library Epic. In recent weeks, his teachers have leaned on web tools, including Albert.io

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2021

Tools for the modern classroom have significantly developed and expanded in recent years. The Tools Of Mobile Learning. Likewise, it can be difficult for students to articulate their imaginations, creativity, observational skills, and overall expressiveness with many tech tools. . by TeachThought Staff.

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Tablets Classroom Khan Academy Chromebook 88

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

After a career working at tech-centric companies including Google and Quora in product roles, Liu Huang joined CZI in 2017 to oversee the product development, notably the Summit Learning platform. Will CZI’s education technology development efforts remain focused on Summit, or will this work expand to other digital tools?

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Education Khan Academy Facebook Advocacy 105

Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Battle of the Classrooms: Apple, Google, Microsoft Vie for K-12 Market The word “Classroom” has never been more loaded as it is now, with all three blue-chip technology giants each releasing a tool with the same name. With copious data collection baked into the process, schools—and students—are already seeing results.

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Khan Academy EdTech LMS Trends 76

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Now the company is teaming up with Khan Academy to use examples like DeRose’s discovery of surface representation to show students how the math and science they’re learning in school is applied by Pixar animators. Students liked meeting real Pixar employees and getting a sense of who they are and where they work.

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Khan Academy Common Core Video Robotics 28

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Among the tools the district found was Teach to One: Math (TTO), a digital personalized learning program by New Classrooms , a New York-based nonprofit, that adapts to a student’s individual skills and gaps. We are committed to personalized learning, but can't continue a program that does not meet the needs of all of our students.”

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Personalized Learning Learning Khan Academy Assessment 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The degree requires the traditional 120 credit hours, but features small classes, extra supports, accommodation for different learning styles, and a modified course schedule to meet the students'' needs. The online study tool StudyBlue has launched a new Facebook app called " Friends with Brainefits."

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I wish my teachers had access to the digital tools and resources available in our classrooms today. Provide and adapt digital tools for assessment that make sense and are appropriate for a particular learning style. Having a wide variety of tools and techniques at your disposal allows you to better assess student learning.

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Assessment Poll Everywhere EdTech Khan Academy 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

There are plenty of “innovators” and “early adopters” of education technology out there, from educators who make the rounds on the ISTE and SXSWedu conference circuits to consultants and entrepreneurs who push for adoption of certain tools or practices. I don't just trust the software company when they say, "This is awesome."

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EdTech Khan Academy How To Software 104

MindShift

MARCH 16, 2020

The web offers countless best practice guides and curated tool inventories, but educators currently in triage mode are not in a position to craft ideal online learning programs. It curates useful tools and resources with a view to maintain the indispensable human touch of teaching and learning during this period of social distancing.

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Resources Learning Khan Academy Survey 66

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Martín sat down with EdSurge to discuss honorCode, his favorite coding tools, and how you take your average math teacher from fractions and algebra to debugging and running programs. The thing that is really special about our teacher PD program is that we meet them where their content is. What exactly is honorCode?

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Khan Academy STEM Training Secondary 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Yet as teachers and students interact with a growing collection of digital tools and services, making data systems “talk” to each other has become a priority. Schools and districts needed a way to standardize data about their students’ backgrounds and achievement levels to meet state and federal reporting requirements.

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Report Khan Academy Data LMS 67

Graphite Blog

AUGUST 22, 2019

It's hard to avoid Google's most popular tools -- Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs are now staples for getting organized and getting work done. These collaboration-friendly tools have revolutionized the way we communicate, work together, and store information online. Is Google Classroom an LMS? Technically, no.

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Google Classroom LMS Khan Academy 76

edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

They described how districts and schools successfully used sophisticated technology to read students’ “digital signals” to meet their academic and social-emotional needs. But analytics tools, like CatchOn and Gaggle, helped schools and districts during the pandemic to aggregate data to monitor how learners fared digitally.

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Khan Academy Data Industry Learning Analytics 53

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Central Detention Facility, slipping past security checkpoints and into cells where incarcerated residents watch Khan Academy videos and craft their resumes. Putting this type of tech tool in a prison or jail can be a hard sell to corrections officials, though. Residents have gotten creative with the tools.

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Tablets E-rate Khan Academy Study 164

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

” Via NPR : “Outcry After Louisiana Teacher Arrested During School Board Meeting.” awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” This is how well your district does.”

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Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Via Masslive.com : “ Massachusetts state government announced a new partnership with an online education company on Thursday to help public employees and the state’s public universities take advantage of online classes.” ” The company in question: edX. ” From the HR Department. Edsurge has hired Jeffrey R.

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Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department relaxes financial aid process in the absence of IRS tool.” Jeff Fernandez, the co-founder of the online learning company Grovo , has resigned.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

.” Via Buzzfeed : “Republican Proposal Would Make Trump University Lawsuits ‘Almost Impossible’ ” Via The Washington Post : “ Chance the Rapper is meeting with Illinois ’ governor about education funding. ” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, a federal panel, is slated to review ACCJC’s recognition and scope at a meeting next week.” No mention that these are backed by big companies and venture capitalists. ” Via Fast Company : “Want to Fight Inequality? ” IMPEACH.

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Education Company MOOC Khan Academy 45

Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

(Ron Howard voiceover: she was not really looking forward to Space Force Academy.). From the Department of Education press release : “ Federal Commission on School Safety Meeting to Focus on the Effects of Entertainment , Media , Cyberbullying and Social Media on Violence and Student Safety.” Starts with a g? .”

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Education Microsoft MOOC Coursera 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? Google)’s biotech company, Calico. “Long Live Online Higher Education.”

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